Archaeology Essentials: Theories, Methods And Practice

by Renfrew, Colin; Bahn, Paul

• ISBN13: 9780500286371
• ISBN10: 050028637X
• Edition: Abridged
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-01
• Publisher: THAMES&HUD

Summary

This new volume has all the authority of Colin Renfrew and Paul Bahn's groundbreaking guide to all aspects of archaeology, but it has been carefully rewritten to provide a readable and compact introduction to archaeology for those new to the field. No other book of this length can match its range of essential information and explanation. Long-established techniques are carefully explained as well as exciting new methods as the authors describe the ways in which archaeologists seek to explain and interpret the remote past of humankind.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. 7
Introduction: The nature and aims of archaeology	p. 8
The Searchers: The history of archaeology	p. 12
What is Left?: The variety of the evidence	p. 36
Where?: Survey and excavation of sites and features	p. 58
When?: Dating methods and chronology	p. 96
How Were Societies Organized?: Social archaeology	p. 130
What Was the Environment? What Did They Eat?: Environment, subsistence, and diet	p. 162
How Were Artifacts Made, Used, and Distributed?: Technology, trade, and exchange	p. 194
What Did They Think? What Were They Like?: Cognitive archaeology and the archaeology of people	p. 218
Why Did Things Change?: Explanation in archaeology	p. 246
Whose Past?: Archaeology and the public	p. 268
Glossary	p. 290
Illustration Credits	p. 296
Index	p. 297
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